Nuclear Concealment Suspected at Iranian Military Base

Nuclear Concealment Suspected at Iranian Military Base

Pictures taken from space suggest Iran's Parchin installation is hosting automobiles capable of transferring soil away from the site, a development certain envoys described as a sign that the Middle Eastern nation is trying to remove atomic particles potentially produced in trials of a mechanism for initiating nuclear-bomb detonations, the Associated Press reported on Thursday (see GSN, March 8).
The International Atomic Energy Agency in November reported indications that Iran intended to use the armed forces site for conducting explosive detonations relevant to a potential nuclear-weapon development effort (see GSN, Nov. 9, 2011). Data obtained from two diplomatic officials ties the possible explosives operations to a separate effort to a build a "neutron initiator," according to AP (see GSN, May 25, 2011).